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Picturing Medical Progress from Pasteur to Polio: A History of Mass Media Images and Popular Attitudes in America
Bert Hansen
Picturing Medical Progress from Pasteur to Polio: A History of Mass Media Images and Popular Attitudes in America
Bert Hansen
Features 130 archival illustrations drawn from newspaper sketches, caricatures, comic books, Hollywood films, and ""LIFE"" magazine photography. This work analyzes the relationship between mass media images and popular attitudes. It shows how media portrayal and popular support for medical research grew together and reinforced each other.
352 pages, 108 black & white & 22 colour illustrations
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | May 28, 2009 |
ISBN13 | 9780813545769 |
Publishers | Rutgers University Press |
Pages | 368 |
Dimensions | 256 × 249 × 24 mm · 766 g |
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